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Est. October 2026

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Technology, organizations,
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Organizations as Executable Specifications

A Specification-Driven Architecture for Bounded Autonomy in Probabilistic Agentic Systems

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A person lays out a paper boundary within which a mechanical arm arranges documents.
Human-defined boundaries. Machine-executed work.

What if an organization could define its work as executable contracts—and let AI act only within boundaries it can verify?

Research in progressTheoretical framework and proposed experimental methodology. Empirical validation remains future work. This working paper has not been peer reviewed.

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